The News‘ New Digital Strategy, Ctd.

The Morning News can’t just put the paper online or in an iPad app and expect people to shell out stacking money every month. Or, at least, they shouldn’t. Here are some features they could include that would make the idea more attractive.

Does this mean Cowlishaw will just upload clips of himself from Around the Horn instead of writing anything?

Duane

Okay, Zac. For once and for all, break down for us why you and Tim have such an axe to grind with the DMN and some of their assorted staffers. Y’all snipe at ’em like a jilted high school crush. I love snark as much as the next guy, but it hasn’t been funny (or even particularly snarky) for awhile now.

Being serious, I think you’re actually right: it is like a jilted high school crush. That was the paper I read when I was growing up, and when I was growing up, it was a better paper to read. I still think there are great writers/editors there (Evan Grant, all their investigative writers a few others), but unfortunately, thanks to bad business decisions and untimely departures, what’s left is not up to its former standards. So if we sound bitter, it’s because we (or at least me) are bitter.

I’m sure a lot of other cities could say the same.

Duane

@Zac Crain: Fair enough. Seeing as how it’s the flagship newspaper for Dallas, you have the right to demand better from them…Especially if you know they’re capable of it in theory and formerly in practice.

That said, you gotta up your comedy game if you’re going to try and be snarky and funny at their expense. We get it that Mario gushes like Dr. Pepper gum over crappy mainstream pop. That shtick is old. Whatcha done for us lately?

A Dallas version of Angry Birds would be soooo cool! Knock down the “signature bridge!” Crunch those giant handles or whatever they are off the Convention Center! Totally destroy the entire downtown skyline!